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Title: | Being Right-With: On Human Rights Law as Unfreedom |
Authors: | Kalulé, Petero |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Publisher: | Springer |
Abstract: | This paper develops the notion of being right-with, a conceptual lens that underscores what happens when individuals turn to human rights law and other legal processes and proceedings to address injustices by the state. It does this through a critical multi-directional reading of two Uganda High Court appeal cases that overturned the decision of a lower court which at first instance had convicted Dr Stella Nyanzi of the offences of cyber harassment and offensive communications. Being right-with is a regulative and coercive idea within human rights law that animates a violent irrepressible police drive. I use being right-with to assert that when individuals make rights claims under human rights law (however radical those assertions might be), they are still imbricated within a mode of liberal humanist subjecthood that is always conceptually unfree. |
Description: | Cc-BY |
URI: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10691-022-09500-x https://dlib.phenikaa-uni.edu.vn/handle/PNK/9154 |
Appears in Collections | OER - Pháp luật - Thể chế xã hội |
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